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"Community" is also central to everything that Citizen Agency does; it's one of the "4 pillars of coworking" that Hunt recently posted to the movement's Google Group (others include collaboration, openness and sustainability). Hunt and Messina scoff at "fly-by-night" commercial coworking spaces, which announce their new ventures on the wiki, but don't stick around to converse and build trust. "There's no buy-in, there's no passion, and no community cohesion," says Messina. "Buzz doesn't come from building buzz; it comes from building relationships," agrees Hunt.